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2 Grade News
April 29, 2011
The St. Pius School community strives to follow Jesus as we
Study, Pray, and Serve.
About this week … Important dates/reminders:
The kids did a great job with morning prayer TUESDAY, MAY 3
and mass this week! Thank you for helping Library today, be prepared for AR test.
your child prepare for this. I was very proud THURSDAY – MAY 5
of how well they did! We also went into Practice for First Communion (see below)
church this week to prepare for First This is only for the children.
Communion. We practiced the proper way SATURDAY – MAY 7
to receive communion and discussed many First Communion!
good questions that the children had. We REMINDER
also asked Father Bob a few questions and Unwanted spring pictures or the money for the
finally had the opportunity to taste the ones you do want need to be turned in ASAP.
unconsecrated hosts. The kids were very
excited about this.
This week in Religion … First Communion Practice Schedule
In addition to practicing for First Communion …
and preparing for mass and morning Last name ending in A-J
announcements, we also began working on
5:00-6:15 p.m.
Chapter 14, “We Receive the Gift of Jesus.”
Last name ending in K-Z
6:30-7:45 p.m.
This week in Math … This week in Social Studies …
We did some review this week. We We are finishing up Unit 3 in Social
also talked about doubling numbers Studies. We will be having a test on this
and had a lesson on multiplying by unit on Thursday, May 5th.
2’s.
This week in Reading … Looking ahead in Spelling …
We worked on Concept 21, “Long U.” We The Lesson 26 words have silent letters in them.
reviewed the spelling patterns for this The interesting thing about this is that these silent
sound: letters may have been sounded out a very long
open syllable u (mu sic) time ago! Now they’ve faded to silent “ghost”
letters that are still spelled, but not sounded. The
u-consonant-e (cute)
silent letter teams we will be learning about
ew (few) eu (feud) are kn, wr, gh, and –mb.
ui (suit) ue (cue)
We did some review work on our F.A.S.T.
Next week’s words …
boards and had fun working as teams to write wrong wrote wrap wreck knife
spell nonsense words correctly. We also knot know knee lamb climb unknown
began the next book, Music, which writer written climbed *toward
reinforces this sound and the spelling *course *language
patterns for long u. Next week’s challenge sentence …
We are excited to celebrate our First
Communion!

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